20th Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 20th Ave, between 1906 and 1964, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, laundries, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks18Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Laundries4Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Clinics and hospitals4Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1960s2Part of Twentieth Avenue to close temporarily · 1964
- 1950s1Stop signs go up at Ocean and Twentieth Avenues · 1953
- 1940s2Supervisor Jesse Colman granted three weeks' leave to travel · 1941
- 1930s18City may buy George Butler's Wawona Street land for $50,000 · 1938
- 1920s48Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back · 1924
- 1910s13Offer to buy United Railroads' lines on Sloat Boulevard put forward · 1916
- 1900s36Parkside Transit Company wins the Twentieth Avenue railroad franchise · 1908
The most notable decisions
Parkside Transit Company wins the Twentieth Avenue railroad franchise
Resolution · 3 February 1908 ↗Parkside Transit to swap Nineteenth Avenue tracks for Twentieth Avenue
Ordinance · 18 May 1908 ↗Parkside Transit agrees to shift its line to Twentieth Avenue
Ordinance · 16 September 1907 ↗Offer to buy United Railroads' lines on Sloat Boulevard put forward
Ordinance · 3 January 1916 ↗Twenty-five year railway franchise offered on Twentieth Avenue and W Street
Ordinance · 21 October 1907 ↗United Railroads allowed a track curve at Second and Market streets
Ordinance · 12 October 1908 ↗Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1924 ↗$95,000 sewer ordered in H Street out to Fortieth Avenue
Ordinance · 20 September 1909 ↗City to negotiate Judah Street transfers with Market Street Railway
Resolution · 1 October 1923 ↗$1,000 for boilers at the Civic Center power house
Resolution · 3 May 1915 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city